I did a quick search here on this topic but couldn't find anything. I'm looking for a convenient way to rip vinyl to cd.

I tried hooking my Dual 504 turntable into my iBook using the Griffin iMic. There was a ton of hiss and hum, and the automatic marking feature on Final Vinyl (the Griffin software) was useless. It kept marking tracks part way into a song. I'm not interested in manually marking the tracks - too time consuming.

I looked up the TEAC GF 350 turntable/CD recorder system. It got favourable reviews on Epinions.com. Thin sounding but easy to use, but costs US$300 - $350.

Any suggestions?

You need a suitable phono preamp which brings the record deck up to "line level" which is what you would see coming from a CD player.

A simple USB sound card plus a phono preamp will do the trick nicely. Some HiFi amps include phono preamps in them which you can use. I use a cheap NAD phono preamp (£30ish) and a M-Audio Transit soundcard (£35ish). You need the correct cables too.

There is definitely a thread here discussing this. Search for it.

Rodabod wrote:There is definitely a thread here discussing this.

= Justin

Justin from Queens wrote:

Rodabod wrote:There is definitely a thread here discussing this.

True.

Sorry if this is in the other thread, I didn't bother to read it, I've messed about with a few of the vinyl conversion programmes and they're no where near as good as a proper DAW programme- if you already have one, I'd recommend using that. Also the clean-up algorithims are usually worse than crap. Unless your LPs are shagged just record them in as is (or better yet, clean them first, the Disco cleaner can be had for about 40 notes and isn't bad for the price). The only clean up tool I found that was any good is the click and pop reducer in adobe audition but I guess that doesn't help if you are using a mac. It also takes so damn long to run it is only worth doing if you have a really bad record.